Pulmonic valve regurgitation occurs when blood leaks abnormally backward from the pulmonary artery through the pulmonic valve into the right ventricle. This can result in right heart failure. Pulmonic ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Edwards Lifesciences announced it received FDA approval for its transcatheter valve with adaptive prestent for ...

RAPID advances in surgery have made an understanding of the significance of any potentially correctable valvular defect as important as the ability to establish an exact diagnosis. As an isolated ...

The findings come on the heels of the US Food and Drug Administration approving the Harmony system (Medtronic) in March as the first nonsurgical heart valve to treat pulmonary valve regurgitation in ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Edwards Lifesciences’ SAPIEN 3 transcatheter valve with the Alterra adaptive prestent for pulmonic heart valve replacement, the manufacturer ...

Edwards Lifesciences announced the approval Monday for management of both pediatric and adult patients with severe pulmonary regurgitation on echocardiography who are candidates for surgical ...

(RTTNews) - Edwards Lifesciences (EW) said it received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the use of the Edwards SAPIEN 3 transcatheter valve with the Alterra adaptive prestent ...

Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common type of birth defect, the estimated number of children born with congenital heart disease in India is more than 200,000 per year. Approximately 20% of ...

What Is Heart Valve Disease? Heart valve disease is when one or more of your heart valves don't work the way they should. Your heart has four valves: pulmonary, tricuspid, aortic, and mitral. Your ...

Former California governor and film star Arnold Schwarzenegger had open-heart surgery in California on Thursday to replace an aging pulmonic valve. His representative, Daniel Ketchell, said that the ...

Isolated pulmonary-valve endocarditis is quite rare, but it shares demographic, clinical, and microbiologic features with the more-common tricuspid endocarditis. 1 We describe a 35-year-old ...

The pulmonic valve is one of two valves that allow blood to leave the heart via the arteries. It is a one-way valve, meaning that blood cannot flow back into the heart through it. The valve is opened ...